System Testing Contracts in the East of England

System Testing
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 123 134
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -42
Contract jobs citing System Testing 6 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.34% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.39% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile £228 £220 £278
25th Percentile £293 £360 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £438 £552 £475
90th Percentile £460 £590 £498
England median daily rate £500 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -6.76% +7.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £86.25 £30.99
% change year-on-year -75.65% +178.32% -31.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

System Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,810 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.14% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,068 1,270
10th Percentile £207 £200 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 344 388
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the East of England

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the East of England

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the East of England

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the East of England

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +3 3 £400 -20.00% 4
Cambridgeshire +4 1 - - 2
Essex - 1 - - 1
Suffolk - 1 - - 1
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Integration Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) ASIC
1 1 (16.67%) EPoS
1 1 (16.67%) FPGA
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
2 1 (16.67%) Product Management
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow